Reflecting on the learning experience:
The social work profession requires a body of scientific evidence supporting the effectiveness of interventions and yet, the social work scientific community could benefit from strengthening its contribution to the profession’s body of evidence. The findings revealed that social work continues to lack a clear definition of research and produces research that only minimally influences practice, often due to the pressure for social work academics to research and publish in support of their career trajectory within academia versus writing for practitioners. The social work profession should take action to address and further research the research-practice disconnect by establishing a clear definition and aims of social work research, and training academics in effective research-to-practice translational methods. Published research is a small part of informing the direction of a project or improvements to services and practices. Much of the improvement that happens is largely based on local evidence or contextual evidence, or evidence that is intentionally gathered from local sources, because it is viewed as more relevant. In some cases, this is fair enough. In the community report the social worker searched a few things to get to her point, and also during the interview between herself and the student, during the helping process, the social worker was able to do research and different sources to match the student, to search for alternative ways to better the students' case and to make the student choose a different path than the one they are struggling with.
Supporting evidence: The evidence can be found in the Intervention Report on all the three phases but mainly pages 3 and 4 in phase two, page 7 in phase three and in the community report on pages under the highlighted sections in blue could also get the information through the following link below.
CONSULTED REFERENCES
Howlett. A, 2016. How does research inform your practice.
Teater, B, 2017. Journal of Social Service Research.